David Reed.KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN St. Gallen (Sankt Gallen David Reed's paintings play fast and loose with the conventions of abstraction and representation--an exercise that could be very dull--but the luxurious, even brazen appeal of his seemingly flattened-out yet liquescent li·ques·cent adj. Becoming or tending to become liquid; melting. liquescent tending to become liquid or fluid. brushstrokes remains irresistibly seductive. If the high-concept angle--paintings that "represent" abstraction, or paintings as part of a theatricalized, video-supplemented miseen-scene--is less easy to swallow, it places Reed in a historical arc at once venerable (Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several ) and trendy (Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied art first there (at the Glasgow School of Art) from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School from 1988-1990 in London. His first solo show was in 1986. ). Kunst-museum curator Konrad Bitterli has assembled a retrospective of approximately fifty of Reed's paintings and two installations. Prepare to submit to clever beauty. Sept. 1-Nov. II; Kunstverein Hannover, Jan. 25-Mar. 2. |
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